Author: Team Zerodha

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Introducing new fundamentals widget on Kite powered by Tijori

The new Fundamentals widget gives you a quick fundamental snapshot of stocks, ETFs and indices across metrics such as valuations, revenue breakdown by products and geographies, financials, peer comparison, shareholding pattern and much more.

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24 Jun 2024
 

Introducing notes on Kite marketwatch

At any given point in time, you may be tracking multiple stocks for different reasons. Even if you add the stocks on your marketwatch, it’s hard to remember all the reasons why you added them. Now, you can easily add a quick note about why you are interested in a stock right in your marketwatch.

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12 Jun 2024
 

Introducing instant withdrawals

You can now withdraw funds within seconds from your Zerodha account to your primary bank account using the Instant Withdrawal feature.

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222
30 May 2024
 

What’s new at Zerodha: March 2024

The last quarter was a busy one for us at Zerodha, and we launched several cool features. We have collated all these updates in this post in case you missed any.

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22 Mar 2024
 

Save for your retirement with National Pension System (NPS)

Invest in the National Pension Scheme (NPS) on Coin. NPS is a brilliant option for saving for your retirement as it forces you to invest in a diversified portfolio of equities and debt by default. It’s also one of the cheapest investment options out there and tax-efficient.

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12 Mar 2024
 

Introducing timeline and insights on Console powered by Tijori

If you have a portfolio of stocks, today there is no one place where you can get updates about all the events and developments that affect your investments. This is where the new Timeline and Stock Insight feature on Console, powered by Tijori comes in.

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13 Feb 2024
 

Trading and market holiday calendar 2024 — NSE, BSE and MCX

Here’s the trading/stock market holiday calendar for 2024 for equity and F&O segments. Holiday Date Day Republic Day January 26, 2024 Friday Maha Shivaratri March 08, 2024 Friday Holi March 25, 2024 Monday Good Friday March 29, 2024 Friday Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Eid) April 11, 2024 Thursday Ram Navami April 17, 2024 Wednesday Maharashtra Day May […]

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15 Nov 2023
 

Introducing Zerodha Fund House

One of the biggest problems for the Indian markets is the shallow participation. We have about 8 crore demat account holders and 4 crore unique mutual fund investors. If you consider the duplication between both, the total number of investors is maybe about 9-10 crores. If India has to grow, our markets have to expand. […]

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266
30 Oct 2023
 

Introducing Zero1! by Zerodha

We are happy to announce the launch of Zero1! by Zerodha, a new YouTube channel that aims to have a fun take on finance lessons and education that we have always offered through our educational initiatives. We are building the channel in partnership with LearnApp, our collaborator of many years. LearnApp has extensive experience in […]

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24 Oct 2023
 

What are dark patterns and can they be regulated

Dark patterns are everywhere, these are tricks used by applications and websites to make users do things they don’t want to. They rely on exploiting our behavioural biases and cognitive limitations. We all encounter dark patterns in our daily lives, like making it easy to subscribe but hard to unsubscribe, pre-selecting actions like purchasing insurance, […]

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20 Oct 2023
 

Introducing the new Streak Scanner and Technicals Dashboard

  The new Streak Scanner allows you to create and run scans across equities, futures, and options using technical indicators and math operators. You can also discover popular prebuilt scanners. Streak Scanner can now be accessed for free for all our users at https://scanners.streak.tech/ Overview of Streak Scanners: Discover Scanners You can browse pre-built scanners […]

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22 Sep 2023
 

Invest in government bonds and sovereign gold bonds on Kite

An ideal portfolio should have a mix of multiple asset classes like equity, debt, and gold. Diversification helps you reduce risk and behave better. Everybody knows how to get equity exposure, either through stocks or equity mutual funds. But when it comes to debt, most people don’t know all the available options. If you want […]

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12 Sep 2023
 

Decoding the SEBI consultation paper on regulating financial influencers

Financial influencers or finfluencers have become incredibly popular in the last 4–5 years. While there are a lot of amazing people who teach people about trading and investing, there are many who sell greed and set the wrong expectations. SEBI recently came up with a consultation paper on regulating finfluencers. In this video, Nithin, Abid […]

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07 Sep 2023
 

Introducing virtual contract note on Kite

  One of the biggest reasons for active traders to lose money is overtrading. And having low brokerage only makes them trade more—something this research paper has explored in detail. While how much brokerage you pay is limited for each order, other charges like STT, exchange transaction charges, stamp duty, impact costs, etc., are levied […]

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03 Jul 2023
 

Instantly sell pledged stocks on Kite

We’re glad to announce that we’ve finally launched the instant sale of pledged stocks feature on Kite, which has been one of our clients’ most requested features for several years. This was delayed due to system limitations, but we are now live. The previous process for selling pledged stocks was to first unpledge them. An […]

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183
16 Feb 2023
 

You can now participate in auction markets

Encouraging greater participation in the auction markets and reducing the impact of auction penalties due to short delivery have been on our to-do for a long time. We have had situations where the losses have been up to 20% due to the lack of liquidity in auction markets. This is because there was no retail […]

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137
25 Jan 2023
 

Trading and market holiday calendar 2023 — NSE, BSE and MCX

Here’s the trading/stock market holiday calendar for 2023 for equity and F&O segments. Holiday Date Day Republic Day January 26, 2023 Thursday Holi March 07, 2023 Tuesday Ram Navami March 30, 2023 Thursday Mahavir Jayanti April 04, 2023 Tuesday Good Friday April 07, 2023 Friday Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti April 14, 2023 Friday Maharashtra […]

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08 Dec 2022
 

Happy Diwali!

All of us here at team Zerodha wish you a happy Diwali! As has been our tradition, there won’t be any brokerages for trades executed during the Muhurat trading session. Our partners under the Rainmatter initiative are also offering some exciting offers and discounts on their products this Diwali season. These are some really cool […]

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24 Oct 2022
 

Two factor authentication (2FA)

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। SEBI, on December 3rd, 2018, released a circular (PDF) highlighting the need for stock brokers and depository participants to maintain robust cyber security and a cyber resilience framework to protect the integrity of data and guard against breaches of privacy. This came into […]

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21 Oct 2022
 

Introducing Varsity Certified

We do what we do at Zerodha because we believe more Indians must invest in the markets and back home-grown entrepreneurs and businesses. This is the only way to reduce our dependence on foreign capital and ensure inclusive growth. If most of India’s capital continues to get invested in real estate and gold, it doesn’t […]

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30 Aug 2022
 

ब्रोकरेज फर्म के लिए Aug 1st 2022 से वर्किंग कैपिटल में बढ़ौती 

ब्रोकर्स के लिए पर्याप्त वर्किंग कैपिटल को मेन्टेन नहीं करने पर 1 अगस्त 2022 से पेनॉल्टी लगना शुरू हो गयी है। जिसमें SEBI के सर्कुलर के दूसरे फेज (phase) के अनुसार ब्रोकर्स द्वारा क्लाइंट के फण्डस को क्लाइंट-लेवल एलोकेशन(client-level allocation) के आधार पर मेन्टेन करना होगा ताकि एक कस्टमर के फण्ड का इस्तेमाल दूसरे कस्टमर […]

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01 Aug 2022
 

Working capital requirements for brokerage firms to go up from Aug 1st 2022

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। Penalties for brokers for not maintaining adequate working capital requirements kick in from today, 1st Aug. The second phase of the SEBI circular requiring brokers to provide a client-level allocation of funds to avoid one customer’s funds from being used by another goes into […]

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01 Aug 2022